Get into BlackBerry® Messenger and express yourself – your way. Share your pin or unique barcode to connect with friends anywhere, anytime. Take comfort in knowing your friends are only a BlackBerry® Messenger message away whether you want to make plans for the night or ask a quick question. Chat and share funny stories, pictures, videos and more with individual contacts or groups of friends instantly. Even share app experiences with BBM-connected apps – so that the things you love to do on your BlackBerry smartphone can now be shared.

Lately, RIM has been releasing new devices every few months and they just keep getting better and better. Seeing all the new capabilities made me think back to not all that long ago when a BlackBerry was just a cool little 2-way pager with a keyboard. Oh how things have changed.

Take a walk back with me all the way to 1999. Gaze in wonder at the dawn of the BlackBerry revolution as I present to you, an illustrated history of the BlackBerry.

BlackBerry 850 was the first BlackBerry device introduced in 1999. Supporting email and limited HTML browsing, the small device featured a monochrome screen.

The BlackBerry 857 came with a larger monochrome screen

The BlackBerry 5810 was the first model with phone capabilities but a headset was required.

The BlackBerry 6200 featured a medium 160×100 pixel monochrome screen and phone.

BlackBerry 6510 came with an integrated phone and integrated two-way radio.

The BlackBerry 6710 had a large monochrome screen, 900/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS integrated phone.

The BlackBerry 7210 was the first one to come with a color screen.

The BlackBerry 7100t introduced a reduced-key keyboard and uses a technology called ‘SureType.’

The BlackBerry 8700 featuring a large 320×240 pixel screen and 65K colour depth.

The BlackBerry 8100 marked the introduction of a new trackball interface and a 1.3 MP camera.

The BlackBerry 8800 with GPS support.

And the latest BlackBerry 8320 featuring Wifi.

The future looks bright for BlackBerry, and I can’t wait to see where we’ll go.

– Animated avatars– Now you can access a selection of animated GIFs that come alive when you hover over the avatar. Three animated avatars are available as part of the beta as a sneak peak (including a ‘smile’, ‘laughter’ and ‘in love’) – with a greater selection to come at launch. You can access avatars when changing your display picture within the Avatars folder and can source your own animated GIFs, (GIF files must be less than 32K and Square dimensions)

– 12 new emoticons – Add to the range of expressions available to enhance your conversations with12 new emoticons to choose from.

– Colored chat bubbles – Customize the color of chat bubbles with 10 colors to choose from. You can pre-assign these colors to your contacts by simply going into your BBM contacts’ profile and selecting the desired contact chat color from the palette.

– Camera / Avatar Integration – Now you can update your BBM avatar right from the BlackBerry camera app by selecting “Set as BBM Display Picture” from the menu options.

Frustrated with the built-in Messages app? Want more features? Then crunchSMS is for you, with lots of extra features like chat-style bubbles, contact pictures, signatures, text snippets, blacklisting, heaps of customizations and much more!

You can simply use crunchSMS as a souped-up replacement to the built-in Messages app, just with a heap more features and customizations.

Translate-and-Speak words, phrases from e-mails, Browser, SMS or typing in the software.
Navita Translator translates more than 50 languages and is capable to speak languages like English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, German and Russian.

IMPORTANT: this app has NO “run” button on appword. After install, the app icon will be on your device Home Screen or your device Downloads folder

WhatsApp is a cross-platform smartphone messenger available for BlackBerry® and 4 other major handsets. WhatsApp Messenger utilizes your existing internet data plan to help you stay in touch with friends, colleagues and family.